During the mission, the famous phrase “Houston, we faced a problem” (“Houston, we faced a problem.” The Swigert astronaut initially conveyed the message to the NASA mission.
The rescue was sad and one of the largest in the history of the US agency. The explosion destroyed the command unit and astronauts faced a significant shortage of water and electric power, as well as high levels of carbon dioxide, according to NASA.
About six days later in space, Apollo 13 crew safely fell in the Pacific Ocean. The task became known as “successful failure”, as the engineers managed to save the three astronauts safely.
Luville received praise for her ongoing leadership throughout the trip. “As commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he helped his calmness and pressure under pressure on the crew to return safely to the ground and showed rapid thinking and innovation that affected NASA's missions in the future,” an agency said in a statement.
The astronaut did not have another opportunity to start the moon mission after Apollo 13. Before the fourth and final trip to space, he started in three missions. Gemini 7, in 1965, which represents the first inhibitor of two inhabited areas. The second is Gemini 12, in 1966, the last programs that led to the tasks of the Apollo Moon. Lovil's third mission was Apollo 8, in December 1968, the first to revolve around the moon. While moving to the ground of his space ship eve, Loville and his companion read his crew, Frank Burmun and William Andros Ayat in the Book of Genesis of the Bible.
The lunar hole was named in his honor
Leville, who later, the moon hole was baptized in his honor, as an astronaut in 1973. Continue work in a port of a port and then on wireless communications.
